Public Domain High Resolution Images. High-Res Public Domain Children’s Images — Public Domain High Resolution Images. “Imagine yourselves, my dear readers, seated on a wild winter night in a Silesian hut in the Riesengebirge, several thousand feet higher than the surrounding valleys, with snow, fathoms deep, everywhere.
The wild storm rages through the desolate mountains. Within, however, everything is warm and comfortable, and as the matrons and maidens busily spin, in fancy, you can listen with pleasure to their tales of the mighty Mountain Lord.” How’s that for a set up? Conjures up all sorts of vivid mental imagery doesn’t it? This opening paragraph is of course 100% copyright-free and comes from the book, “Silesian Folk Tales (The Book of Rubezahl)”, written by James Lee & James T. You can find a scan of “Silesian Folk Tales” in the Internet Archive.
These public domain folk tales are wonderfully imaginative and well written, ripe for republishing as part of your own collection of folk tales. The book itself was written as joint effort between Mr. Don’t have a team of your own? Old Book Art. Welcome to » Old Book Illustrations: pictures scanned from old books. Public Domain Images. Liam’s Pictures from Old Books.